Forty years ago an amateur Scottish paleontologist named Stan Wood made a fascinating discovery, uncovering Westlothiana ...

Sustained high rates of morphological evolution during the rise of tetrapods. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2021; DOI: 10.1038/s41559-021-01532-x Cite This Page : ...

More information: Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08884-5 Provided by Uppsala University ...

Elucidating how body parts in their earliest recognizable form are assembled in tetrapods during development is essential for understanding the nature of morphological evolution. Researchers found ...

Video: A ‘leg up’ in evolution? ... These animals gave rise to the tetrapods – the group that includes all birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, including humans.

Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland Nature, 463 (7277), 43-48 DOI: 10.1038/nature08623 Brian Switek is a freelance science writer and a paleontology volunteer with ...

Tetrapod Limbs: If you want to see concrete evidence of evolution, look no further than your hand or your foot. Five fingers, five toes. There's nothing magical about the number, yet five digits ...

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study. By analysing fossil skulls of animals across the ...

Over 750,000 square kilometres of Amazon rainforest have been cleared since 1970 – a fifth of the total. As a result, many of the animals that live there are threatened with extinction.But this isn’t ...

While the global story of tetrapod evolution is based largely on data from fossils found in North America and Europe, Dr. Pardo said, the discovery of Gaiasia highlights the importance of studying ...

More information: Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution, Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08884-5 Journal information: Nature ...

New discoveries of fossil clawed footprints from Australia, published this week in Nature, push the origin of reptiles back in time by at least 35 million years and change the entire timeline for ...